Article 87

Business continuity policy and response and recovery plans

1. As part of their risk management, Union space operators shall put in place and shall document incident and crisis management measures. The measures shall be structured into a business continuity policy which shall be implemented through tailored response and recovery plans.

2. The response and recovery plans referred to in paragraph 1 shall allow Union space operators to quickly and effectively respond to incidents and contain the adverse effects thereof.

3. The crisis management measures taken by Union space operators shall build on the measures established, within the space segment and the ground segment, including redundancies and backups, to mitigate in particular the following:

(a) natural disasters;

(b) operation accidents;

(c) disruptions in the supply of utilities, notably during the operation phases;

(d) loss of power generation, power failures and disturbances and changes of conditioning of the relevant equipment;

(e) loss of physical assets at the ground segment, including, for instance, loss of mission control centres, loss of satellite control centres, and loss of terrestrial interconnection between them;

(f) interferences on the ground-to-space, space-to-ground and the space-to-space radio frequency links;

(g) altered or compromised parts of the ground segment, including as regards the cryptographic keys. When implementing the requirements set out in the first subparagraph, Union space operators shall take into consideration the need to maintain effective technical control of the space segment, and ensuring the continuity of services and minimising the areas of the unavailability of services.

4. Union space operators shall ensure that staff involved in carrying out business continuity measures and implementing response and recovery plans have acquired full and adequate trainings needed to fulfil their roles.

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